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Sexy Mother Foodies prefer to dine on reclaimed wood.
Mere foodies may limit discussion to what they are eating. Sexy Mother Foodies go on to explain what they are eating on, ultimately acknowledging the former lives of their dining tables. Old barns, silos, and pews are among the most desirable sources–and they makes for really good cocktail party talk. Making stuff out of old wood is so prevalent that we’ve slowly been adding new words to describe the exact same thing: reclaimed, repurposed, retooled, found, and (personal favorite) rescued.
From West Elm to Brooklyn hipsters who dropped out to “work wood,” building tables from construction detritus is totally hot, happening, and increasingly expensive (especially for lumber with a good backstory). Siding from a North Carolina barn may be quaint, but rescuing the ceiling beams from a church in Nantucket is enough to draw Sexy Mother Foodies from afar to your table. The final product is sure to showcase natural contrasts through wood knots, age rings, and distressed areas where splinters should have been sanded down.
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I’ve lusted after a SMF style farm table for some time and I’m thinking of going all out hipster like and working some reclaimed wood into a conversational dining set, only problem is the lack of tools and skills. What’s a SMF foodie with high DIY aspirations and little time to do?
Call Jed! He “salvaged” the hemlock used to build a 19th century silo upstate NY–now he makes them into dining tables in his Williamsburg workshop.
http://silotables.com/
Or, if you are truly DIY inclined… I hear that “reclaimed” doors as dining tables are quite the rage. Hire someone to weld on wrought iron legs or find suitably SMF-style sawhorses–from Brooklyn Flea or Ikea? Probably both.
Good luck!
There’s also the Lorimer Workshop in Rhode Island, which makes custom tables and then delivers them to your door! David Ellison, the guy who runs the workshop, is a gem – we got our custom 7-foot oak table for as much as we would have paid for a lesser-quality version at Crate & Barrel.
Excellent, ladies. My rustic table dream is within close(r) reach.
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